hi I am new...and old...old as in age new as in gnulinux. i have dual boot mint and windows7. rarely use windows but have been playing with comand line trying to compile dccnightmare without much luck but now i cannot boot into windows. it just says it isnt there. I can see it from mint and move around there but not boot into it. any help/ideas? dccnightmare questions too but dual boot for now...

bob@bob-PORTEGE-R700 ~ $ su
Password:
bob-PORTEGE-R700 bob # grub-install /dev/sda5
/usr/sbin/grub-setup: warn: Attempting to install GRUB to a partition-less disk or to a partition. This is a BAD idea..
/usr/sbin/grub-setup: warn: Embedding is not possible. GRUB can only be installed in this setup by using blocklists. However, blocklists are UNRELIABLE and their use is discouraged..
/usr/sbin/grub-setup: error: will not proceed with blocklists.

Hi there, thanks for your efforts but this does not work either. The command ran successfully saying 'installation finished. no error reported' but had no effect. I get the boot screen options and when i choose windows it says

os-prober is called by grub-mkconfig to find non-Linux installations. It is failing to find your Windows system, which is why it is not included in the GRUB menu.

It appears that your Windows setup has been damaged, this may be as simple as the boot flag not being set on its partiton. You may need to boot your Windows rescue disc/partition and run fixmbr - or whatever it's called for your Windows version - before booting a live CD and reinstalling GRUB.

"Insanity: doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results." (Albert Einstein)

thank you... i was beginning to think (very vaguely) along those lines at least that i'd have to do something with Windows first and i know from the past it mucks up my Linux side. Will have a try and post back if i still have an OS to do it. ha ha! thanks for all the advice its always good to speak to Linux folk.
bob